Biopsychology and Your Mind: The Mental Mechanics of Your Thoughts, Feelings, Emotions and Their Disorders

Biopsychology and Your Mind explains the way your mind works – and why it sometimes doesn’t. The key is your mental mechanics: molecular, neural, and biological mechanisms.

This book explores the unexpected properties of thoughts, feelings, emotions, and actions, examining phenomena such as blindsight, associative learning, intact memory in amnesia, and dreaming during sleep. Using evolutionary biopsychology as a framework, it addresses fundamental questions: What constitutes an emotion? How...